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This picture from DTX has to be one of my favorite views of Boston ngl, I love the weird angles and the mix in styles.

Out that far from city center you have two forces that work on providing more parking per unit: 1) parking/driving is worth more to tenants in a car centric area 2) land is cheaper per unit area I'm at least unsure whether it's true that a developer isn't on the hook for an unsuccessful...

The supply of parking really should be a function of how important it is to people there. I don't think we should be in the business of giving everyone free street parking, space is valuable. Free parking encourages more car ownership than is efficient and that has externalities in the form of...

Too bad everyone thinks a municipal assembly knows better than the developer on site how much parking is needed to make a project viable 🙄

New spending on aid has been a very small part of the yearly military budgets, let alone American aggregate demand. And that's even with the dramatically falling defense spending as a percentage of gdp since the cold war. If we want to get serious about deficits crowding out investment, we need...

I probably shouldn't be surprised given how few people have kids these days, especially in Massachusetts

I imagine it probably has as much or more to do with school quality as it does to do with raw space demand. Most people with the resources to get a suburban home and inclination to have kids would probably rather their kids go to Newton or Acton than Boston or Somerville I feel. Improving...

I feel like so many people I know or see online have a deep fear of market solutions to anything. So I think inclusionary zoning/community benefit/reviews reform and have a tiny consistency between old home owners and young renters. Anecdotally, I feel at least there's been an increasing amount...

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But isn't ridership not that different between last year and this year? It doesn't look like there's a 1.5x or 2x ridership increase from when I browse the transitmatters or first party T data visualizations. Where's all this revenue coming from?

Damn, is there a particular input that you think is making the most difference in our cost structure here?

Here's another incomplete thought: These 5/1s are only luxury because there's so little else on the market to compete with it. If we could saturate the market with 5/1s I feel like developers would no longer be able to differentiate purely on the newness of their buildings and have to resort to...

I've seen type 9s on the C branch that had the same sign but express to coolidge corner.

In short, it don't look good lmao

I don't see why we should care if the demand is from people or people who think they can rent those units. If they want to put their own money on the line and lose their shirt, who are we to stop them? With that logic, the United States would have strangled our tech sector in the dot com boom...

35-43 Braintree Street